Harry Christophers will join us for insights into Frank Martin and his Mass for Double Choir as well as conversation about upcoming recordings with The Sixteen and the ambitious Choral Odyssey project. Also on the program, Elgarâs In the South Overture and a serenade for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch.
TTF Program 295 March 21, 2020
Hour One
Mendelssohn: Hora est (Christoph Liebold, bass; NDR Choir, dir. Philip Ahmann) 9:00
Scarlatti: Sonata in G major (Dubravka Tomsic) 3:26
Stanford: Shall we go Dance, O Breathe not His Name (Quink) 4:22
Chopin: Ballade #4 (Svjatoslav Richter) 11:25
Elgar: In the South Overture, Alassio, op. 50 (BBC Symphony Orchestra, dir. Andrew Davis) 21:51
Hour Two
Martin: Cantata for the Swiss 1st of August, the National Day of Switzerland (Margaret Phillips, organ) 6:21
Martin: Mass for Double Choir (The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers) 25:54
MacMillan: Song of Athene (The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers) 6:25
Martin: Three Songs for Ariel (The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers) 5:00
Hour Three
Whitacre: A Boy and a Girl (Elora Festival Singers, dir. Noel Edison) 3:20